Intro To Psych Flashcards

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Birth of Psychology

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-philosophers started thinking about thinking
Socrates taught Plato - mind is separate from body continues after death; knowledge is pre-existing

Plato taught Aristotle- Aristotle used a lot of logic and careful observations to disagree w/

Socrates and Plato about mind- body relationship and how we gain knowledge through experience and observation. Tabula rasa

Rene Descartes agreed w/ Socrates and Plato about the separation btw mind and body (dualism)

Francis Bacon followed Aristotle to carefully experiment using common sense logic

Empiricism guides psychology
-observation 
- experiment in natural sciences
- knowledge originates in experience
•John Locke, bacon , Aristotle 

1879
Wilhelm Wundt, Germany; 1st experiment
Father of psychology

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Psychology

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Study of the human mind, mental processes and behaviors

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Evolution of psychology

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Structuralism: 
E B Titchener
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functionalism:
William James

Structuralism, functionalism, humanistic, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, social cultural, biological ( neuroscience, evolutionary, behavior genetics) , eclecticism ( similar to biopsychosocial

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Structuralism

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Study of elements of consciousness
1st school of psych
(Used introspection)
Unreliable

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Pseudo Psychology

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  • Telepathy
  • Tarot reading
  • Fortune telling
  • Miss Cleo
  • Graphology
  • Palm Reading
  • Phrenology ( science which studies the relationships between a persona character and the morphology of the skull)
  • Horoscopes
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